BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

Good luck getting the £49 activation charge back , for 48hrs delay; I had two weeks delay with plusnet and they refunded only a months BB
(I guess you can tell them it is critical for your business)

Your 52MB Unlimited plan at £10.99 is better than just £12 (reduced from £20) I can see, thought it had been £12 for last week, but maybe there is region specific charging
Does the Youview basic box record ?

Can you actually refuse their smarthub and use an existing plusnet one say ?
(that has been working fine for me, and also if I can avoid additional charges if I need to terminate before 12 months , that would save £65 )
 
Can someone help me find my line stats in the smart hub menu please. I can't find them anywhere. I have basic up/down sync but no noise and attentuation numbers?
 
Do you need to look/note-down these statistics regularly to see if anything adverse is happening on your line, like DLM
If your line suffered a temporary problem and no issues occur again then the DLM system will act to improve the speed of the service. This would typically be after 48 hours of stable service.
If the DLM system improves the line and a problem returns it would double the time of required stability (within thresholds) before it attempted to improve the performance of the service again, up to a maximum of 64 days
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Could not find any detailed explanation of how this might work with BT/adsl2+

personally
SNR Margin (1 dB): 19.8 31.0
Attenuation (1 dB): 10.0 6.0
Output Power (1 dBm): 19.8 10.1
Attainable Rate (Kbps): 11780 1316
Rate (Kbps): 8128 448 0 0
 
jpaul said:
Do you need to look/note-down these statistics regularly to see if anything adverse is happening on your line, like DLM

Could not find any detailed explanation of how this might work with BT/adsl2+

personally
SNR Margin (1 dB): 19.8 31.0
Attenuation (1 dB): 10.0 6.0
Output Power (1 dBm): 19.8 10.1
Attainable Rate (Kbps): 11780 1316
Rate (Kbps): 8128 448 0 0
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ADSL 2+ you can request the DLM to be turned off. Fibre you cannot.
 
Getting BT to sort the box in my house for FTTP is driving me nuts in my new build :mad:

Just want my internet sorted. Can I expect to see much of a difference with fibre direct to the property instead of a standard FTTC connection?
 
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I've randomly lost about 5Mb off my download. My profile is fine hasn't changed from the max its always been for the last 4-5 years I've had FTTC on a stable line about 150m from the cabinet.

Plusnet can't see any issue. They said 'I'm sync'ed at 75Mb'

Its almost like I'm capped at 69.5 or 70Mb according to Speedtest.net.


Any obvious ideas chaps? Crosstalk maybe?

Going to reset my router etc this weekend see if it makes a difference as I'm beginning to wonder if it could be on my end. Asus N66U with Merlin FW FWTW.
 
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http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...s-g-fast-broadband-cabinet-extension-pod.html

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So this would not work in many rural areas where lines are long (800m+)

I hate to think how much money Openreach must waste trialling and buying equipment that sweats ancient copper! The BDUK focus on FTTC instead of FTTP is really disappointing. My parents address was upgraded from 1Mb ADSL2+ to 38Mbit (MAX) thanks to the rollout, but no doubt it'll be stuck at this speed for a very long time now and become obsolete.
 
@thread

So we have:

FTTC - 38Mb/10Mb, 52Mb/10Mb, 76Mb/20Mb
G.fast - 160Mb/30Mb, 330Mb/50Mb

Something really doesn't ring right...how about 160Mb/40Mb and 320Mb/80Mb? Oh, and while you're at it, how about line-selective profile flipping? That way I could bond two lines and have 400Mb/s symmetric...how about it, OR? :D
 
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